August Rush is a 2007 drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Nick Castle, James V. Hart, and Paul Castro, and produced by Richard Barton Lewis.
In 1995, Lyla Novacek Keri Russell is a cellist living under strict rule of her father William Sadler. Louis Connelly Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the lead singer of The Connelly Brothers, an Irish rock band. Lyla and Louis meet and sleep together. The day after, they separate in a hurry, and are unable to maintain contact as Lyla leaves for Chicago. Lyla realizes she is pregnant. After an argument with her father, she is struck by a car. Due to the accident trauma, she gives birth prematurely, and her father secretly puts her son up for adoption, allowing her to believe that the baby died.Eleven years later, Evan Taylor Freddie Highmore is living in a boys orphanage outside New York City, where he meets Richard Jeffries Terrence Howard, a social worker. Evan has the savantlike ability to hear music wherever he is. Convinced that his parents will find him, Evan runs away to New York City, following the music in the hope it will lead him to his family. He finds a boy named Arthur Leon Thomas III performing in Washington Square Park. ........
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